Organizational Hierarchies in the Slovenian Manufacturing Sector

Abstract

We study organizational hierarchies in a transition country using employer-employee matched data for Slovenian manufacturing firms. we perform our analysis and find that Slovenian firms have on average fewer organizational layers, and change them less frequently than their French counterparts. We argue that the lower organizational depth in Slovenia may be due to the lack of a reporting cutoff (which applies in France), to transition-specific factors (i.e. a smaller share of highly productive firms), and a higher wage premium to tertiary-educated workers.